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Roland Penrose: Paintings, Drawings and Objects
Roland Penrose’s work as a poet, biographer, critic, art historian and organiser and consultant of major avant-garde exhibitions has been widely disseminated in Spain through publications and books, but Penrose is also an artist. We now have the opportunity for a closer look at this side of his personality thanks to the retrospective exhibition organised by the Fundació Joan Miró under the auspices of the British Council Institute.
The importance of this exhibition on Roland Penrose lies first and foremost in the fact that it is the first time we have had the opportunity to see the work of one of the artists who gave life to the English Surrealist movement. Beginning with his artistic contribution to the great International Exhibition of Surrealism held at the New Burlington Galleries in London in 1936. He actively participated in organising this major exhibition, which marked the beginning of Surrealist activity in England, and he also collaborated with the London Bulletin, the mouthpiece of the Surrealist group.
The documentation and publications accompanying the exhibition highlight the most significant features of Surrealism in England, which was always open to the avant-garde trends of the time. These aspects distinguished it from its French counterpart from the outset and placed it at the opposite pole of what could have been a rigid dogmatism.
The exhibition will open on 26 February at 7.30 pm and run until 29 March 1981.
